Karma is but a reflection. An echo. It is causality. It is a mirror.
Karma is often associated with a kind of reward or punishment and even more often, especially in New Age corrupted appropriation, from life to life specifically. Oddly enough, that reincarnation concept was something I discovered because of a certain mirror.
At age 4, I was seated in front of a wood-paneled TV in my white short-shorts with red seams; full ‘80s childhood regalia. My shirt more than likely had either Alf or the California Raisins on it. On the screen, a black-and-white mouse named Mickey was stepping through a mirror to dance with books and cards.
Instead of joyously hopping around to the old jazzy jingles to come, I was stuck on that membrane. I wish I could remember exactly how the process went. All I know is that I quickly ran to my father and asked…
”Dad, what if we come back after we die?”
This caused some tension as he had been forbidden from teaching me his metaphysical ideas by my mother who really wanted me to be raised a good Christian. Look how that worked.
From that point on, my father made sure a whole new library was available to me.
Causality is the key here, a kind of behavioral Newtonian physics. For every action…
Also on this card is Ma’at, the Egyptian goddess who weighs your heart against a feather at death. She is also related to harmony.
Instead of worrying about the return of our ripple, as those New Age folks may be, we should be more concerned with what we start our ripples with. Spiritual folk have issues realizing that there is something external. I always hear concerns about OUR vibration, OUR karma, OUR enlightenment. But the water’s surface we reflect in contains everything.
Our cause has an affect on the entire world. How can we use that? How can we use the balance of our heart toward harmony?
I suggest that we look at the 100th Monkey concept.
Now, I have had other’s attack me when I bring this up. The original HMC goes that a group of monkeys were taught to wash fruit before eating. When a critical mass began doing this (the titular 100th monkey) then unrelated bands of monkeys began doing the same thing. This is used to say that there is a sort of morphic resonance and that we could do things like create peace by getting enough of us to think peace at the same time… I hope that seems as goofy to you as it does to me.
The whole result came from an error in reading the data… a confirmation of bias, if you will.
But here’s the thing: if one monkey is taught to wash their fruit, another monkey will see that and suddenly it will be a possibility that hadn’t existed before. Maybe she will, maybe she won’t. But the possibility is now introduced.
Eventually, if enough monkey’s are doing it, it becomes not only a possibility, but an accepted one. The more acceptable, the quicker the behavior can spread. This is, in part, memetics.
Is there a way you want to live but don’t feel you can because the world has no possibility for it? What can you do to live it anyways? Are you willing to be the first ripple of possibility? Can you be the light-wave that others might reflect?